Demonic Walco
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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Ink Slings.
—REED birds are even beginning to
chirp.
—If time is money, how recklessly the
festive bum spends it. *
—-A man need not be a CROESUS to
sport creases in his trousers.
—What will Bgston do if Pigeon
English is relegated to the musty pre-
<cincts of obsoletism.
—WiLLiAM MULDOON might make a
good Secretary of ‘War if he trains Jim
into the White house.
—Two Philadelphia jurors who were
not in the box have placed Quaker city
justice iu a terrible box.
—Life insurance rates, for missiona-
ries, have taken a jump since HARRISON
signed the Chinese exclusion act.
—The Chinamen are to be excluded
but that won't, in any way, affect the
the num ber of pig tails in Chicago,
—If HARRISON'S organs keep on,
poor CorumBus won’t have had any-
thing to do with the discovery of
America at all.
—Newspaper people can usually keep
up with the style in pocketbooks, if in
nothing else, because there is hardly
ever any change in them.
—The Philadelphia Inquirer thinks
that Philadelphians need several more
bridges across the Schuylkill. They
will be bridges of size indeed.
—4“Gathering in the sheaves,” is the
popular White house hymn and home
comes REID, SMITH, PORTER and all
the rest. BENNY is getting desperate.
--Wall paper has always been a put
up job and it looks very much as though
the Trust which is to control that com-
modity has partaken of the same nature.
—If some Pennsylvania legisiator
desires to immortalize himself let him
introduce a bill, at the next session
providing for 2 whipping post in every
county.
—Apropos of son Russell’s unsolicit-
ed $5,000 worth of Yellowstone Park
stock we might recount : “Some people
are born hororable. Others have honor
thrust upon them.”
--Mr. Rupyarp Krpning will con-
fer a favor on us if he withholds an ex-
pression of his opinion of Chicago until
after the fair. We are anxious that
Gt. Britain be represented.
—Italy’s treasury has a deficit of 70,-
000 lire and the King is in desperate
straits. He can get all the liars he
wants if he runs a press gang crew up
some of our fishing streams.
—¥ven INGALLS, the scape goat, the
besmircher of the nu emory of our heroic
dead and the man whose foul tongue
became even too foul for his confrers,
in Republicanism, has been taken into
the fold and will go to Minneapolis.
—Congress may be diddleing away a
good bit of valuable time, as the Re-
publican organs of the country claim,
but as yet they have not given much
evidence that they intend to diddle
away a billion of dollars, as their preda-
cessors did. ;
—The German carp with which Cali-
fornia streams have been stocked have
driven out all the other fish as well as
the aquatic birds. The result 1s they
are starving and threaten an attack up-
on the wine cellars and beer vats of the
coast.
—If girls were half as sharp as they
ought to be, the fellows whose names
don’t begin with one of the first letters
of the alphabet would never be in it.
Mrs. A. or Mrs. B. will invariably head
a list of ‘distinguished people” while
Mrs. M. or Mrs. P. will have to go
away down below.
—WiLLiam will soon have to “whis-
tle or sing’ or make up with his Grand-
ma and BrsMARK. France will not be
slow to take advantage of his being at
the outs with two such potentates, for
she knows also of the crippled condi-
dition of the Tripple Alliance due to
Italy’s dirth of lires.
—Ill health will probably be the
cause of Senator STANFORD'S resigning
his seat in the upper house of Congress,
and if he concludes to die in private life
he will have immortalized himself in
the eyes of an all suffering people. The
Lord deliver us from the expenses of an-
other HEARST funeral.
-—~Mr. WANAMAKER had better be a
little careful, in his
against the newspapers containing adver~
tisements of games of chance, lest some
untutored country post master throws
out the organs containi ng booms for the
administration. With HARRISON it is
fast becoming a game of chance.
~The Presbyterian church will un-
doubtedly have to retrench. HATTIE
ADAMS says she has always honored the
rituals of that denomination, but since
Dr. PARKHURST lead her astray she has
concluded to do without sanctimony.
Harries little shop is closed for repairs,
since the leap frog party, and the great
divine’s crusade against immorality
still goes on.
discrimination !
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 37.
BELLEFONTE, PA, MAY 13, 1892.
NO. 19.
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul.
Another of the glorious benefits that
accrue from a high protective tariff is
heralded in the announcement, by the
Republican press, of New York, that
“Wirniam H. EpwaRDs, one of the best
known tin manufacturers of Cardiff,
Wales, is on his way to the United
States to conclude arrangments for the
establishment of a tin coating and fin-
ishing mill in this country.”
The Republicans hail this bit of in-
telligence with unwonted delight, be-
cause of the complete failure of their
infants, which have beer sucking from
the McKiIvLEY tariff bottle, ever since
the protective measure passed, to make
a showing in their product. The burn-
ing of that gigautic (?) tin mill, at
Philadelphia, in which the enormous (?)
sum of $8000 was invested, and which
posed as the leading American plant
has brought the question before the
people in its truest aspect, and to fore-
stall the injuries, which such and ez-
pose ot the business will surely bring
to the party which has fostered it at
the expense of the American consum-
er, they circulate the report that an
English tin manufacturer is on his way
to raise the tactory, phoenix like, and
save the one booming (?) industry of
our land.
For the last ten months an exorbi-
tant tariff tax has compelled us to pay
an advanced price of one and two:
tenths cents a pound for tin, simply be-
cause a few infant plants, which, until
within the last few weeks had failed to
make their hiding places known, need
the succor which the iniquitous Me-
KINKEY measure gives them. Mr.
PorTER, in his census of manufactures,
is unable tosay anything of them. The
importation of tin is steadily on the in-
crease and every day we are paying in-
more into the fund to support phantom
industries. According to the act this
thingis to go on until October 1st 1897. |
Then, if there has not been enough
produced, in any one of the interven-
ing years, to aggregate one-third of the |
importation for that year the President |
is to remove the additional duty.
Meanwhile English manufacturers are |
to come over and operate little 6x10
plants and enrich themselves, through
the tariff,as thousands of iron magnates |
and other monopolists are doing.
Republican papers are jubilant be-
cause Mr. Epwarps employed 800,
men in his mills at Cardiff. Bat he,
has not signified his intention of em-'
ploying as many in his talked of Phila-
delphia plant. How desperately they
clutch at the straw which is to employ
a few hundred men while the employer |
grows fat off our sixty million.
Since the bill, now before Congress,
proposes the reduction of the duty
to one cent per pound, after October 1st,
1892, orginated the tin industry of the
United States has begun to be heard
from, yet but nineteen firms have been
reported on the Treasury records, To-
gether they represent a capital of about
$100,000, yet Republican statesman
deemed it expedient to make us pay
an extra duty aggregating $10,170,000,
since July 1st, 1891, the time the Mec-
KivLey bill went into effect, so that
nineteen monopolist might get rich.
If Mr. Epwarps does locate here it
will only be for the purpose of washing
the black sheets which will still be im-
ported from the English mills: For
keen (?) Republican foresight reduced
the duty o of
a cent per pound, atthe same time
that it advanced the daty on tin. Thus
Great Britain retains her manufactur
‘ing lead of the black sheet, the most
important part of the tin industry,
while the United States is taxed be-
| yond all bounds of reason to suppoit
the dipping process which employs
but few and unskilled laborers,
TE TY TC TST aCe
anlr o Xp
n black sheets, one-tenth
—— The report of the State Board
of Charities in the matter of the Hunt-
| ingdon Reformatory investigation vin-
dicates the management of the institu:
tion and scores Senator OspornE, the
! prosecutor in the case. It was shown
| that OsBorvE wanted favors from the
managers, which they declined to ac-
| cord, and the accusation was the conse-
quence. It isnot improbable that the
Senator had in view the betterment of
his political fences, also the coming
contest for re-election, and the fact that
his attempt to 'siirch a public institu-
tion, to promote his selfish personal
interests was futile will not cause
much regret throughout the State.
| boycott has been put upon the English
‘language.
' schools which the children attend, and
| that the worst.
i dition of affairs is justified and approv-
High Time to Call a Halt.
Perhaps no president of a grand and
free people ever found himself in a posi-
tion similar to that occupied by Mr.
Harrison when he was called upon to
sign the Chinese exclusion act. The
West demanded his signature to the
discriminating immigration measure,
and standing, as he does, at the doors
of a convention in which he will need
every delegate he can get, he had
not the courage to exercise his power
of veto. Mr. HarrISON’s act was at
once obligatory and cowardly. The
former, because of bis desire to cater to
the western interests, of which he is by
no means certain, and the latter because
of China’s entire inability to retaliate.
It is not the intention of the Warcn-
MAN to approve of an influx of China-
men with a consequent disaster to
American labor, but if the immigra-
tion question is to be touched at all
why does not one party or the other
step boldly forth and stop the awful
tide of pauper foreigners, anarchists,
nihilists and convicts, which is flood-
ing our shores.
The trans-Atlantic steamboat com-
panies are doing more injury to the
country by their foreign advertisements
of “Cheap Transportation to America,
the Land Flowing with Milk and Hon-
ey” than all the Chinamen who would
come over could do. And the exclu-
sion bill sets forth the following clause,
about the inoffensive Mongolians :
“They cannot live in this country with-
out affecting it in a serious manner”
yet its framer is every day reading of
the serious affects which the influx of
hordes of Hungarians, Italians, Rus
sian Jews and representatives of other
like nationalities is having.
Our country is affected and the sit-
uation is becoming alarming, but have
we pot a statesman who has the cour-
age to lead the conflict against the
force which is destroying everything
that is American ?
The following extract from an ex-
change gives only an idea of the aw
fulness of the situation: “The “clan-
nishness”” of some of the gentlemen
from across the seas—not Mongolians
—is fairly well illustrated, by the fact
that in sections of Illinois, Wisconsin
and other western states an effectual
It is not allowed in the
a great foreign community is growing
up in the heart of the country. Nor is
This anomalous con-
by Pennsylvania newspapers which de-
fend the exclusion of Mongolians on
account of their “clannishness.”
—The man who started the SHERMAN
boom must have forgotten that Foraxk-
ER and McKINLEY are both from Ohio.
Mr. KipLING, the brilliant young
Englishman, has lost much of his lus-
ter through his ignorant attacks upon
the New York municipal government.
The London Times has been teeming
with articles in which he vents his
spleen upon the great American me-
tropolis, and while we are fully aware
of the many frauds perpetrated upon
the people of New York, by political
tricksters who have its government in
hand, we would nevertheless suggest
the propriety of his studying the old
saw that “people who live in glass
houses should’nt throw stones. If
New York streets do resemble the ap
proaches of a Kaffir kraal” they are
bustling with a business which, in a
very short time, will crowd London
clear out of the commercial world and
it her police management is “bad” 1t
neverthleless surpasses that of any
other city in the world for dispatch in
detection of erime. Inspector Byrnes
just took two days to catch “Jack the,
Slasher” at hisawful work while the
London police have been twice as
many years in their fruitless search
for “Jack the Ripper.”
—— Curis Magee denies the state-
ment thet he has become reconciled to
Quay. But then denials do not al-
ways deny and a favorite plan of crimi-
nals isto plead an alibi. If the person-
al interests of the two bosses are sub-
served, by coming together, they are
about certain to shake hands, kiss and
make up.
<
——Fine job work of ever discription
at the Warcaman Office.
. Has Congress Gone Clear Mad.
It is to be hoped that the Democrat-
ic majority of the House will reflect
before passing the River and Harbor
bill now under consideration. The
public is not ready for a bill which ap-
propriates nearly fifty million dollars
for the improvement of the water ways
of the country. Even though about
half the amount is made contingent’ on
future wants. The farmers want am-
ple and cheap transportation for their
grain, and the consumers of the farm
products would like to buy in a cheap
market. But there is entirely too
much uncertainty as to the effect of
this enormous appropriation to make
it a popular measure,
Congress should make such provi-
sion for internal improvements as will
subs:rve the general good. But in
making appropriations, even with this
object in view, the strictest economy
should be observed. We don’t believe
in cheese-paring too closely. We are
not in favor of crippling commerce
or embarrassing trade for the sole pur-
pose of building up a reputation for
frugality. But we are in favor of lim-
iting appropriations to the actual needs
of the people and in t%i3 the vast ma-
jority of the citizens are in accord with
uz, The people are taxed to death by
the McKinLey bill and it is neither
wise nor desirable that burdens should
be put on the present generation to
meet contingencies which may and we
hope will arise in remote periods in
the future.
This is a growing country, but there
is no use in forcing it like vegetables
are forced out of season. We can get
along fairly well without strawberries
in January and we can waddle through
life for a few years yet without a ship
canal such as is proposed in the River
and Harbor bill. In first there are no
reasons in sight why such a water way
will be needed for years to come, and
it.is time enough to go to the under-
taker when death has invaded the
household. Let the Democratic ma-
jority, therefore set down real hard on
the present River and Harbor bill. It’s
altogether to expensive a luxury,
No Cause for Excitement.
There is no use in going into spasms
over the the aspect of the Reading deal
as some of the New York and one ortwo
of the Pennsylvania papers are doing.
These journals seem to think that the
Governor or the Attorney General, or
both of them, have been derelict in refer-
enceto the matter. The facts do not jus-
tify such a conclusion. The Governor
and the Attorney General are all right
and if it is ascertained, by judicial in-
quiry, that the Constitution has been
violated that instrument, sacred to
every Democrat, will be fully vindicat-
ed.
As soon after the disclosure of the
Reading deal as was consistent with so
grave a matter, the Attorney proceed-
ed, by bill in equity, to discover the
facts. There was no occasion for quo
warranto proceedings for the reason
that even if the deal was obnoxious to
the organic law, it was already com-
summated and the drastic measure
would have been useless. There were
very distinguished lawyers ready to haz-
ard their reputation on the opinion
that the deal was not in violation of
the Constitution, and the only safe and
sure way to get a judicial opinion was
the way adopted.
The investigation will now proceed
in a regular and orderly manner and
when the result in ascertained the deci-
sion of the court will be carried out
promptly and vigorously. If the able
Judge before whom the issue is brought
decides that the Constitution is violat-
ed in letter or spirit the offending cor-
porations will be enjoined. If on the
other hand, as the corporations inter-
ested contend, the fact is demonstrated
that the lines which are leased, consol -
idated or absorbed are not parallel and
competing the deal will be undisturbed
and a legitimate transaction will escape
unnecessary annoyance and harrassing
litigation. The Governor.and the At-
torney General are capable of taking
care of the Constitution and the law
and they intend to do it without fear
or favor,
—— Maybe BraiNg will be a candi
date after all. He attended the races
and the circus lately and munched pea- |
nuts to prove that his digestion is equal
to that of the elephant.
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"called the
Not Our View of it.
From the Pittsburg Post.
President Harrison is getting cold
comfort for signing the Chinese exclu-
gion law. Thus one of his critics says :
When a senator, Mr. Harrison spoke
and voted on the Chinese question like
a civilized man. As a candidate for
the presidency, he had to repudiate the
most honorable part of his record. As
candidate for renomination, he has to
put his name to a law which is in fra-
grant violation of a treaty, which was
properly described by an excited Meth-
odist yesterday as “an outrage on civ-
ilization,” and which, moreover, will
subject hundreds of Americans in Chi-
na to the gravest perils.
But for all that the people will gen-
erally approve the President making
the exclusion bill a law by his signa-
ture. If the truth must out the relig-
ious bodies are more concerned about
their missionary efforts in China than
the welfare of millions of American
workingmen,
Let It Wave O’er Land and Sea.
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
A bill has passed the House that has
for its object the restoration of the
American flag to its old time promi-
nence in the carrying trade on the
ocean. Its purpose is to grant Ameri-
can registers to ships builtin Europe
but owned by American capitalists,
The folly of Republican navigation re-
gulations refused American registration
to any ships but those built in this
country, and as their tariff policy made
ship building more expensive in this
country than in England and Scotland,
American capital invested in ships
went to Europe for what it wanted.
The consequence was that vessels own-
ed in this country were prevented from
sailing under the American flag. The
bill has passed the House and will
probably pass the Senate, and is a step
toward making the American flag
again conspicuous on the ocean.
We Might Have a Lodge in Some Vast
Wilderness Yet.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
A valuable point is brought up by
the Wellsboro Gazette, which says that
a law passed in 1879 provides that any
person liable to road tax who plants on
the line of the public highway any
fruit, shade or forest trees shall be cred-
ited on his road taxes at the rate of one
dollar for every four trees so set out.
The possibility that this might result
in a total disappearance of road taxes
does not interfere with the recommen-
dation that this provision shall be not-
ed in the next Arbor Day proclama-
tion. Road taxes as now applied do
little good anyhow, and the departure
indicated might inaugurate a new sys-
tem of solid and shaded highways.
Sweet Work All the Same.
From the Phila. Record.
If the defenders of tariff spoliation in
the Senate will not give the country
free wool or free cotton ties, let the
House send to them the bill to put re-
fined sugar on the free list. Several of
the tariff organs have expressed a wish
for the repeal of the sugar duty, on the
ground that the principal members of
the Sugar Trust are “Democrats.” But
Democrats or no Democrats, the duty
on refined sugar should be repealed
with unnecessary delay. It would be
a pity if the Senate should be deprived
of the opportunity of aiding in the re-
peal of the sugar duty, if it cannot be
persuaded to contribute in any other
respect to the work of Tariff Reform.
A Voice from New England.
From the Boston Democrat.
We are not of those who believe that
the only man who can lead the Demo-
cratic party to victory is Mr. Cleveland,
though in him we have firm confidence.
He is a safe man and in all things
proven worthy of the support of his
party, but he may not be the next Presi-
dential candidate. There are a few
doubtful signs, but only a few. Sena-
tor Hill is an impossibility. Gov. Rus-
sell may yet be the man, and without
his seeking. President Harrison will
be renominated under a handicap.
Bad Ones for Grover.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The Democratic South, to which a
Democratic victory means a great deal
more than the opportunity to secure a
tew offices, has called a halt. We
know now, and the country will soon
know, that Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia will send
anti-Cleveland delegates to Chicago.
The same conditions that exist in these
States are vital in the otlier Southern
States, and the result, as we believe,
will be anti-Cieveland delegations.
He has had Enough Advertising.
From the Easton Argus;
The victim of the duelling Milbank
is a person whose identity can only be
conjectured but Milbank stands promi-
nently forth in newspaper notoriety as
aristocratic bully, euphoenously
“defender of honor.” Talk
of his escapades is growing tiresome and
newspaperdom would be committing a
ardonable offence if it would expunge
the varied colorings of his doings from
the press.
Spawls from the Keystone,
—Young men of Bethlehem for med a mus”
tache club.
—A directory canvas gives the population of
of Reading as 70,911.
—Harrisburg appropriated $7000 to
free text books to pupils. "
—Lieutenant Governor Watres has taken his
Sunday school class to Carlisle.
—F. B. Hotaling, a Syracuse drummer, put
a bullet through his head at Corry.
—Gov. Pattison pardoned Joseph Rielly; of
Pittsburg, and Frank Schoff, of Clearfield.
—Sixzteen year old Carrie Greth of Reading,
recently killed six big snakes with a club.
—Edward Kennan, of Shenandoah, took an
overdose of digitalis and died in great agony.
—It is proposed to experiment running
street cars in Williamsport with gasoline mo-
tors.
—An electric car at Leban on struck and ser-
iously injured the 3-year old child of Ellsworth
Furman.
—A fall of top rock at Shenand cah City Col-
liery Tuesday morning fatally crushed Robert
De Lowery.
—Jacob Hoffman was attacked in the road
by a dog supposed to be mad at Earlville,
Berks county.
—Allentown Sunday had its whole water
supply cut off for five hours, while the works
were repaired.
—The Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut Works, at
Lebanon, resumed operations Friday, after a
long shut down.
—A charter was granted to the Lewistown
and Bellefonte Electric Railway Company.
Capital $400,000.
—Reading’s Boulevard along the Schuylkill
as now planned is four and a half miles long
and will cost $50,000.
—Alexander 8hareco’s wife eloped with
John Noble, her star boarder, at Shenandoah,
taking $1300 with her.
—Robert Christie, D. D., will succeed Dr.
McClelland in the western Theological Sem-
inary, at Pittsburg.
~—Three year old Annie Fisch, of Scranton,
was run over by an electric car Monday and
horribly mangled.
—Nancy Christy, a Harrisburg colored wo-
man, celebrated her 100th birthday anniver-
gary on Wednesday.
—The Murraysville church fight has been
ended by Rev. William Steele accepting a call
to a New York church,
furnish
—Silas Farrady, once a well-kno wn pugilist,
fell through a railroad bridge at Schuylkill »
Haven and was killed.
—A failure of the supply of natural gas re-
sulted in a shut-down at the Upper Carnegie
Mills, Pittsburg, Monday.
—The Grand Castle of the Knights of the
Golden Eagle, began its annual sessions
at Chambersburg, Tuesday.
—An 8 year old son of Eli Martin, of Lancas-
ter, was run over and killed by an electric car
at that place Monday night.
—Joseph Rakoski, who was terribly beaten
by two companions in Shenandoah a few days
ago, is now insane as a result.
—The infant child of Levine Bodder, of
South Bethlehem, was fatally burned by car
bolic acid it found in the cupboard.
—A concert was held in Bethlehem Sunday
night for the benefit of the sufferers of the
Central Theatre fire in Philadelphia.
—Murderer Keck, confined in the Allene
town jail, is not permitted to eat with a knife
or fork, owing to his suicidal threats.
—Suit has been brought at Wilkesbarre
against Samuel Bailey, who is 101 years old,
for wages alleged to be due a farm hand:
—Seventy stolen chickens were found cn
the premises of Edward Smith and Frank
Miller, who wera arrested near Lebanon.
—=Sent on a trifling errand April 25, Kate
White, a 17-year-old girl of Lampeter, Lancas-
ter county, has not since been heard of.
—The city of Easton has raised $20,000 to-
wards a $40,000 endowment for Lafayette Col-
lege. James W. Long contributed $10,000.
—J. Frederick Hartgen, one of the survivors
of the railroad wreck at Revere, Missouri, ar-
rived at his home in Reading on Sunday.
—A big black bear was shot half a mile from
Easton by Andrew C. Edelman, and the farm-
ers are getting padlocks on their pig stys.
—While attempting to steal a ride from
Tunkhannock to Vosburg, Henry Vanderpool
fell under the train and had a leg amputated.
—The grand jury at Pottsville, indicted Ed-
ward Lakeslee and James and Thomas Kelly
for the murder of Officer Mergat near Tama-
qua. *
—The Stewart Iron Company, capital, $400,
000 was organized at Easton, and will operate
the mill now located there, employing 500
people.
—Monday Rev. Thomas D. Reese and Mrs.
Reese, of Harrisburg, celebrated their golden
wedding. The latter her 75 birthday anni-
versary.
—The leader in the recent riots at the
Huntingdon Reformatory will be prosecuted
in the Huntingdon Courts for assault with in-
tent to kill.
—A heavy fall of coal in the North Ashland
mine, Monday, imprisoned Edward Grant, a
miner. A large gang of men are working to
release him.
—Failing to commit suicide, Charles Hunt,
the Cleveland optician, has been locked in the
Reading jail, because his wealthy wife says he
tried to kill her.
—Crazed by grief Mrs. Adam Stell, of Hun-
tingdon, threw herself in a mill race. Her
body was carried over the big motor wheel
and was tearfully mangled.
—It is stated in Wilkesbarre that the Phila-
delphia ana Reading Railroad is about to con-
struct mammonth car shops there to supply
the Buffalo line with cars, ete.
—The 46th anniversary of the death of
George Shiffler in the church riots at Phila.
delphia was celebrated with a banquet by
George Shiffler, at Lancaster Friday night.
—Robert McClure, general agent of the
Pittsburg Law and Order Society, is on trial
for perjury, said to have been committed dur-
ing his erusade against Sunday newspapers.
—The Susquehanna Electric Railway Com-
pany and the Harrisburg and Mechanics-
burg Electric Railway Company are fighting
ove 1 he possession of a route for a proposed
line.
—1It would cost $12,000 or $16,000 to build a
retaining wall along the road through the
mountain gap in Windsor township, Berks
county which is more than the township can
afford.
—In the United States Circuit Court at Pitts-
burg, Monday, Judge Acheson dismissed the
suit of Samuel F. Barr against the Pittsburg
Plate Glass Company. The suit involved sev-
eral million dollars.